Hoffman films shown at BBJ

JAKARTA (JP): A cinematic tribute to American actor Dustin Hoffman is being shown at Bentara Budaya Jakarta (BBJ) at Jl. Palmerah Selatan 17, Central Jakarta, until Thursday.

With his nonconventional looks, Hoffman, now 64, went against the standard of the clean-cut male matinee idol of the 1940s and 1950s. In his first major film role in The Graduate in 1967, playing a young man in flux who is learning to love for the first time, Hoffman represented the unease of young Americans in facing the turmoil in society and themselves in the late 1960s.

He cemented his acting reputation as the sniveling con artist Rizzo in 1969's Midnight Cowboy opposite Jon Voight and as the American husband whose wife is brutalized in a small English village in the disturbing Straw Dogs.

The three films chosen for the festival -- Lenny (1974), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Tootsie (1982) -- were made at the peak of Hoffman's career.

For more information, contact tel. 548-3008 ex 7910. (brc)